Mary Astor Quotes

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A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.

Mary Astor
Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.

Mary Astor
Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.

Mary Astor
Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

Mary Astor
Five stages in the life of an actor.... 1. Who's Mary Astor? 2. Get me Mary Astor. 3. Get me a Mary Astor type. 4. Get me a young Mary Astor. 5. Who's Mary Astor?

Mary Astor
It's not good to take sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the samenesses.

Mary Astor
Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.

Mary Astor
Life without emotion was like an engine without fuel.

Mary Astor
We were worse name-droppers than people who dropped our names. Another actor was a 'best friend,' 'know him very well,' 'died in my arms,' 'gave him his first break in that picture of mine.'

Mary Astor
He had had experience with suppression; whatever it was didn't stay suppressed, but wandered around in the body and the mind looking for a place to hurt.

Mary Astor
The boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.

Mary Astor
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes — but a movie actor waits.

Mary Astor
The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

Mary Astor
The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

Mary Astor